start here — no reading music required
Learn the seven white-key letters, hear how two notes make an interval, build a few bright major chords, then play two songs you already know — all by ear, right in the page.
the white keys — your seven letters
The white keys are named with just seven letters — C D E F G A B — and then they start over. That's the whole alphabet of the piano. Tap along and say each letter aloud.
The black keys come in little clumps of two and three. To find C, look for any group of two black keys — C is the white key just to their left. Every bold letter on the keyboard above is a C. Those are your landmarks.
intervals — the distance between two notes
An interval is simply how far apart two notes are, counted in keys. Pick one below to light it up and hear both notes together, always measured up from middle C.
chords — three notes that belong together
Stack a few intervals and you get a chord. The friendliest is the major triad: a root note, a note four steps up (the major third), and a note seven steps up (the perfect fifth). Press all three at once for that warm, complete sound.
simple tunes — read the score, watch the keys light up
Now put the notes in a row and you have a melody. Here it is written out properly, exactly as it is printed in a real book. Press play: the note you are hearing turns brass on the stave while the key it lives on lights up below. Then try to copy it yourself, one note at a time.
Twinkle, Twinkle · 4/4, in C — press play and the score follows along